Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania (German plans to invade and conquer Lithuania if they don't give Memelland to Nazi Germany, which happened in March 1939) Nazi propossals of a German-Lithuanian military alliance to invade Poland during Danzig crisis , returning the Vilnius Region to Lithuania in exchange of being turned into a German Puppet ...
German-occupied Europe at the height of the Axis conquests in 1942 Gaue, Reichsgaue and other administrative divisions of Germany proper in January 1944. According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Territory of the Saar Basin was split from Germany for at least 15 years. In 1935, the Saarland rejoined Germany in a lawful way after a plebiscite.
Germany's military production was tied to resources outside its area of control, a great disadvantage as compared to the Allies. British Empire in 1921 In 1938 Britain was the world's superpower, with political and economic control of a quarter of the world's population, industry and resources, and closely allied with the independent Dominion ...
Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich [j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
De jure administrative divisions of Nazi Germany in 1944 Länder (states) of Weimar Germany, 1919–1937. Map of NS administrative division in 1944 Gaue of the Nazi Party in 1926, 1928, 1933, 1937, 1939 and 1943. The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), [4] was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. [5]
German Air Ministry Building: 1936 Hall of Models: Haus der Kunst: Munich 1937 Hitler Youth Clubhouse or Hitler-Jugend Heim: Jena Brücke: Lorient U-boat base: Lorient, France: 1941 Kehlsteinhaus (Eagles Nest) Obersalzberg: 1938 Lower Silesian Governor's Office Breslau: 1939-1945 Luftgaukommando Dresden Dresden: Luftgaukommando Munich Munich ...